Chapter 5. Paradise as a Place on the Threshold of the Heavens

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Creating an Embodied Subjectivity for Religious Experience 25
6. Chapter 2. The Imaginal Body as an Affective Script for Transformation 69
7. Chapter 3. Progressive Spatialization: The Scripted Movement Out From Places of Punishment 114
8. Chapter 4. The Thirdspace Terrain of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Fear and the Exegetical Generation of Texts 153
9. Chapter 5. Paradise as a Place on the Threshold of the Heavens 206
10. Conclusion 267
11. Bibliography 274
12. Subject Index 303
13. Ancient Text Index 306
14. Modern Author Index 318